Sad news to report from the desk of Puscifer and ultimately Primus: drummer Tim Alexander has suffered a heart attack and will need open heart surgery in the next few days. The news was posted yesterday on the Puscifer social networks.

We’re big fans of Tim “Herb” Alexander as a musician and we’re wishing him the best of luck in surgery and the speediest of all recoveries while he’s on the mend. Primus has a series of dates booked in September so it’s likely those will either get rescheduled or they’ll call up Jay Lane to finish off the commitments while Alexander is healing up.